Display page content AFTER a loop of posts

Question

This is probably easy once you know but I'm having trouble getting the static page content to appear AFTER a list of posts.

I'm using a named page template which displays posts as a slider and I want to display the static content of the page underneath this slider.

To display the static content I've got this in my template:

<!-- display page content (if any) before blog posts -->
            <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

            <div <?php post_class(); ?>>
            <h1 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

                <div class="entry">
                <?php the_content(); ?>

                </div><!-- /.entry -->
               <div class="fix"></div>

            </div><!-- /.post -->
            <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<!-- end of page content -->

If I use this bit of code BEFORE the slider query/loop then my static content displays fine with the slider displaying the posts after. However if I use this snippet AFTER the slider posts then I just get a list of the slider posts - because of the query set up for the list of posts.

Basically, to show the static content after the slider posts I need to reset the query back to the current static page content somehow.

Answer 1

wp_reset_query(); or consider saving your $wp_query result into $my_query = new WP_Query(); if( $my_query->have_posts(); etc. Just take a look at the codex page.

Answer 2

Your slider needs to be created from a second, custom Loop. There are a few options, including using $my_query = new WP_Query(), however, generally speaking, my preference is to use $my_query = get_posts().

If you post your slider code, we can help you customize it properly.

Answer 3

Thank you.

I understand that ideally the slider code would have the custom query variable in order to keep the default data held in $post for later down the page but the slider is taken care of by my parent theme so I didn't want to change it. Instead I did this:

wp_reset_query didn't seem to do anything but the following worked...

I added this before my second loop (after the slider) to get the current static page:

$my_query = new WP_Query( 'paged=' . get_query_var( 'page' ) );

while ($my_query->have_posts()) { $my_query->the_post();